His poetical works are believed to have been composed in his old age at the mansion on his estate near Évora, known as Valle de Palma.

King Philip II accepted the dedication in flattering terms and visited the poet when he came to Portugal.

The poem was published four years after the death of Corte-Real by his heirs, and had two later editions, while a Spanish version appeared in Madrid in 1624 and a French in Paris in 1844.

His lengthy epics suffer from a want of sustained inspiration, and are marred by an abuse of epithet, though they contain episodes of considerable merit, vigorous and well-coloured descriptive passages, and exhibit a pure diction.

[1] See Subsídios para a biographia do poeta Jeronymo Corte-Real (Évora, 1899); also Ernesto do Canto's Memoir on the family in Nos.